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Examining the domestic politics of imperial expansion these essays
question the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial
leadership beyond the issue of hierarchy and The Great Divergence.
This volume brings together leading global economic historians to
honour Patrick O'Brien's contribution to the establishment of
global economic history as a coherent and respected field in the
academy. Inspired by O'Brien's seminal work on the British
Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon, these essays expand
the role of the Industrial Revolution and British imperial
leadership beyond the issue of hierarchy and The Great Divergence.
The change from the protective Atlantic empire, 1650-1850, to the
free trade empire of the last half of the long nineteenth century
is elaborated as are the conscious efforts of the free trade empire
to develop markets and market economies in Africa. British domestic
politics associated with the change and the continuation to the
recent politics of Brexit are fascinatingly narrated and
documented, including the economic rationale for imperial
expansion, in the first instance. The narrative continues to the
crises of globalization caused by the world wars and the Great
Depression, which forced the free trade British Empire to change
course. Further, the effects of the crises and the imperial
reaction on the East African colonies and on New Zealand and
Australia are examined. Given current concerns about the
environmental impact of economic activities, it is noteworthy that
this volume includes the environmental impact of globalization in
India caused by the free trade policy of the British free trade
empire.
First comprehensive account of Africa's economic history. This book
spans two thousand years from the origins of domesticated food
production to the third decade of the independence era. The author
applies various theoretical perspectives to the two main themes of
internal development and external dependency, with an emphasis on
the continuous growth of domestic African economic capacities
accompanied by an ever-increasing engagement with the international
economy. North & South America: Available from Heinemann
African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone
countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and
relied on support from the French film industry and the French
state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du
cin\u00e9ma et de la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO),
held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films.
But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate
the African cinema world: mass-marketed films shot on less
expensive video cameras. These \u201cNollywood\u201d films, so
named because many originate in southern Nigeria, are a thriving
industry dominating the world of African cinema.Viewing African
Cinema in the Twenty-first Century is the first book to bring
together a set of essays offering a unique comparison of these two
main African cinema modes.
During the heyday of camel caravan traffic-from the eighth century
CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century
building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with
the Atlantic-the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial
highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward
and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture
southward into the Sudan. Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the
remarkable story of an African world that grew out of more than one
thousand years of trans-Saharan trading. Perhaps the most enduring
impact of this trade and the common cultural reference point of
trans-Saharan Africa was Islam. Austen traces this faith in its
various forms-as a legal system for regulating trade, an
inspiration for reformist movements, and a vehicle of literacy and
cosmopolitan knowledge. He also analyzes the impact of European
overseas expansion, which marginalized trans-Saharan commerce in
global terms but stimulated its local growth. Indeed, trans-Saharan
culture not only adapted to colonial changes, but often thrived
upon them, remaining a potent force into the twenty-first century.
The Duala people entered the international scene as
merchant-brokers for precolonial trade in ivory, slaves and palm
products. Under colonial rule they used the advantages gained from
earlier riverain trade to develop cocoa plantations and provide
their children with exceptional levels of European education. At
the same time they came into early conflict with both German and
French regimes and played a leading - if ultimately unsuccessful -
role in anti-colonial politics. In tracing these changing economic
and political roles, this book also examines the growing
consciousness of the Duala as an ethnic group and uses their
history to shed light on the history of 'middleman' communities in
surrounding regions of West and Central Africa. The authors draw
upon a wide range of written and oral sources, including indigenous
accounts of the past conflicting with their own findings but
illuminate local conceptions of social hierarchy and their
relationship to spiritual beliefs.
This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial politics. One of their lasting advantages was European education, which they used to develop ideas about their ethnicity and its historical basis. The authors criticize these local beliefs about the past but indicate what they reveal about power and identity in this region and elsewhere in Africa.
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